11 nations of West Africa commit to a military deployment to restore the ousted president of Niger
11 nations of West Africa commit to a military deployment to restore the ousted president of Niger
An official of the West African bloc of nations says 11 countries in the region have agreed to commit troops to a military deployment aimed at restoring Niger’s democratically elected president following last month’s coup.
Eleven West African nations have agreed to commit troops to a military deployment aimed at restoring Niger’s democratically elected president following last month’s coup, an official for the regional bloc said Friday after a defense ministers meeting.
Hope they have a swift victory. No democracy is secure when someone can seize power without repercussions.
Unfortunately, Mali and Burkina Faso (other military dictatorships in the area) said they would also get involved and back Niger's new military regime. If anything happens, it'll probably escalate into a regional war.
Why did the coup occur? Do the citizens of Niger support the coup?
It has been reported that the Wagner group (Russia) supported the coup in some way. Russia does have an interest in getting African nations to support them instead of the West, so it would make sense.
I could be wrong because I'm definitely not an expert here, but I don't think Wagner has been shown to be involved yet. The junta has asked for Wagner's help and Wagner has been active in several neighbouring countries, so they're absolutely not a million miles away, but it looks like the actual coup happened without them
If the citizens supported getting the president out, why not vote for it? Coups in democracies are almost always the instrument of those who cannot win elections.
Here is a pretty good breakdown about the situation.
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I hope they succeed. Unfortunately, the people of Niger will suffer either way, but hopefully they will suffer less if the war is quick.
Everyday we inch closer to world war III, aren't we? There are military conflicts all over the world right now. You'd think people would chill out after surviving a global pandemic, but no, apparently not enough people die from pandemic, more must die from armed conflicts as well.
If you think wwIII is going to start because the ECOWAS bloc is entering Niger I have good news for you- it’s not. I’m not sure I follow why multiple military conflicts prove wwIII is coming. The WWs were not an amalgamation of multiple small conflicts. They were larger theaters of war all interconnected, not disjointed like the Ukraine war, Yemeni conflict, and Niger coup are. You’re not really fear mongering, but your fears for the start of wwIII to be born out of any of the wars right now aside from the Ukraine one doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Prior to WWII, there were a lot of different conflicts where most of the main actors in WWII were involved. Spanish civil war with the coupists supported by the nazis, Germany annexing Austria and Czechia, Russia trying to occupy Finland, Italy doing whatever the fuck Italy was doing... Of course, that doesn't mean that a world war is a necessary conclusion, but I wouldn't blame anyone for thinking it's a hint.
No one cares enough about sub-Saharan Africa for ww3 to start there. The only place I could see ww3 starting in Africa is if the Egyptian military leaves Africa to fuck with Israel again and Israel fires the big bomb